Nic Klaassen
Senior Software Engineer at Teleport
British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolNic Klaassen is a senior software engineer based in British Columbia with a decade of experience building secure, production-grade systems in Go, C++, Python, and Linux. He focuses on networking and security, contributing backend fixes and SSH/Kubernetes improvements to the widely used Teleport open-source project. His background includes bringing up networking hardware at Arista and embedded Linux work across embedded and instrumentation roles, giving him rare full-stack fluency from firmware to cloud. Nic combines practical security-minded engineering with systems-level debugging—often tackling authentication, certificate management, and non-interactive SSH edge cases. He holds a BASc in Computer Engineering from Simon Fraser University and has a track record of shipping both device-level proof-of-concepts and scalable infrastructure features. Beyond code, he’s comfortable designing hardware interfaces and low-level tooling, which informs his thoughtful approach to secure systems design.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at Simon Fraser University
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gravitational/teleport
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
The easiest, and most secure way to access and protect all of your infrastructure.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2302 reviews, 251 commits, 1273 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nic's contributions focused on backend development within the Teleport project, specifically in the areas of SSH and Kubernetes. This included fixing output issues related to non-interactive SSH commands, resolving issues related to authentication and certificate management, and adding various code for the Kubernetes configuration. The commits also covered areas such as improvements to the existing codebase, including modifications to authentication processes, and code related to the user's certificate management. The contributions are focused on improving the SSH functionality of the product.
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nklaassen/sts-endpoints
Aug 2022 - Aug 2024
Helper program to print a list of all valid AWS STS endpoints.
Contributions:3 reviews, 62 PRs, 63 pushes in 2 years
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